The future of Hi-Rez is groovy

It'll cost teramegagigabytes of teramegagigabytes or back to 1968 :-).

Although I'll take HD downloads over Redbook digital, I'll take analog over either. Around 1999 Sony/Philips introduced the SACD, but over the last 15 years the market has overwhelmingly voted with their wallets for vinyl. I still recall the audiophile mags' gushing reviews of SACDs when they first came out ("the clarity of digital combined with the musicality of LPs!"). Riiiiiiight. An incremental improvement over CD, but still not as musically satisfying as LP. Still a relief when the silvery disc finishes, where I like to spin LP after LP.

Never before has an obsoleted video or audio medium come back. When you consider that the LP came out in 1949 and the stereo LP in 1958, they really got it right. In fact, some of my best-sounding LPs are from that era or are quality re-presses from that era.

Austin Powers will be happy about all this.

Austin couldn't figure out how to get good sound from a CD either, much less anything else digital. I think the scene was in his first movie.

Is This you?

I just love how you can find just about anything with digital. Records can't do that!!!

Mapman, if CDs sound better to you than LPs, it's probably time to upgrade your turntable. That Fisher-Price Close'n'Play can only take you so far.